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Hanken, Taylor, Sam Young, Karen Smilowitz, George Chiampas, and David Waskowski. "Developing a Data Visualization System for the Bank of America Chicago Marathon (Chicago, Illinois USA)." Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 31, no. 5 (August 5, 2016): 572–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1049023x1600073x.
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AbstractAs one of the largest marathons worldwide, the Bank of America Chicago Marathon (BACCM; Chicago, Illinois USA) accumulates high volumes of data. Race organizers and engaged agencies need the ability to access specific data in real-time. This report details a data visualization system designed for the Chicago Marathon and establishes key principles for event management data visualization. The data visualization system allows for efficient data communication among the organizing agencies of Chicago endurance events. Agencies can observe the progress of the race throughout the day and obtain needed information, such as the number and location of runners on the course and current weather conditions. Implementation of the system can reduce time-consuming, face-to-face interactions between involved agencies by having key data streams in one location, streamlining communications with the purpose of improving race logistics, as well as medical preparedness and response.HankenT, YoungS, SmilowitzK, ChiampasG, WaskowskiD. Developing a data visualization system for the Bank of America Chicago Marathon (Chicago, Illinois USA). Prehosp Disaster Med. 2016;31(5):572–577.
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Casals, Neus Torbisco, and Idil Boran. "Interview with Iris Marion Young." Hypatia 23, no. 3 (September 2008): 173–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2008.tb01211.x.
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Originally, the idea of interviewing Iris Marion Young in Barcelona came about after she accepted an invitation to give a public lecture at the Law School of Pompeu Fabra University in May 2002. I had first met Iris back in 1999, at a conference in Bristol, England, and I was impressed deeply by her personality and ideas. We kept in touch since then and exchanged papers and ideas. She was very keen to come to Spain (it seems that her mother had lived some years in Mallorca) and she finally travelled to Barcelona with her husband and daughter in spring 2002.The lecture, which she entitled “Women, War, and Peace,” was meant to be the closing session of a course on Gender and the Law, and was also part of a series of seminars annually organized by the legal philosophy department (the Albert Calsamiglia Seminar). Her work was quite well-known among several Catalan philosophers and political scientists and professor Angel Castiñeira—who, at the time, was the director of Idees (Ideas), a Catalan journal published by the Centre d'Estudis de Temes Contemporanis (Center for the Study of Contemporary Issues)—suggested that she could give a second lecture, which they would publish together with an interview I could prepare. She accepted both proposals, and I started to think of a questionnaire for the interview while I was at Queen's University in Canada earlier that year. Idil Boran, a philosopher and good friend who did her doctorate at Queen's, offered to help me with this endeavour, since she also admired Iris as both a scholar and a person. Together we prepared the questions and sent them to her once she was back in Chicago, as there was not time to conduct the interview in person while she was in Barcelona.In fall 2002, she sent some answers to our questions, but the document was unfortunately incomplete. She was busy at the time, so we didn't want to pressure her to finish the interview. Eventually, the editors of Idees decided to publish the manifest about the war in Iraq subscribed by a large number of American Intellectuals together with fragments of Iris's (antiwar) lectures and an article that she wrote together with Daniel Archibugi, “Envisioning a Global Rule of Law.”1 The interview was thus left unpublished. Both Idil and I thought it would be worthwhile to publish it somewhere else, but, for one reason or another, Iris didn't have the time to complete it and we kept postponing the project. At some point, she said that the questions she left unanswered were too complex or challenging to give a short or quick answer, and that she would need to reflect on them to provide detailed responses.Later, we learned she was ill and we didn't feel it was right to insist on those questions being answered. The issue came up again when she accepted to participate as a keynote speaker at the World Congress of Legal Philosophy held in Granada in June 2005. She then said she would come first to Barcelona (where she and Nancy Fraser had been invited to a workshop by the Catalan Women Institute) and suggested we could sit in a cafe and talk about the issues left out in those unanswered questions. Unfortunately, she had to cancel this trip because of her medical treatment, and I did not have the privilege of sharing time with her again. The following series of questions and responses are the product of this rather extended interview process.Neus Torbisco Casals
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Parker, William N. "A “New” Business History? A Commentary on the 1993 Nobel Prize in Economics." Business History Review 67, no. 4 (1993): 623–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3116806.
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The editor of the Business History Review has asked me, as the oldest “new” economic historian, to make a comment on the 1993 Nobel Prize award in Economics—a comment directed to “real” historians—which I am not—and especially to business historians, of whose product I have been an often satisfied—though occasionally restless—consumer. Needless to say, I find this to be an assignment difficult to fulfill. Praise will be put down to “trendy” insincerity and criticism to jealousy. Nor will Historians miss the irony in all the excitement generated by the award within a sub-tribe whose main charge has been to minimize the biographical, the “human” element in historical explanation. The self-styled “new” economic history movement, christened half-jokingly as early as 1968 by an ingenious neologism, “Cliometrics,” was now, twenty-five years later, awarded what is formally known as the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Science in Honor of Alfred Nobel, in the persons of two of its very keen and most prolific, best-known, energetic, and indomitable practitioners, Douglass C. North of Washington University (St. Louis, Mo.) and Robert W. Fogel of the University of Chicago (Chicago, Ill.). Surely there is some lesson in marketing in all this to make business and entrepreneurial historians sit up and take notice.
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Repousis, Spyridon. "Is there banks stocks’ manipulation around announcement of national elections and how can we detect and recover ill gotten assets?" Journal of Money Laundering Control 17, no. 4 (October 7, 2014): 402–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jmlc-07-2013-0026.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of major non-economic events, such as the announcement of Greek national parliamentary elections during the period 2000-2009, and search for stock manipulation and methods to detect and recover ill gotten assets. The Financial Sector in Greece is one of the most important and fast growing sectors during recent years and accounts to about 16.17-17.74 per cent of gross domestic product. The ten largest Greek banks listed in the Athens Stock Exchange, accounted to 38.34 per cent of the whole capitalisation of the Athens Stock Exchange during year end 2009. Design/methodology/approach – By using event study methodology and Market Model and analyzing data of all Greek bank stocks prices listed in Athens Stock Exchange, before and after the announcement of four Greek national parliamentary elections during period 2000-2009, we find interesting results about stock market manipulation. Findings – Using daily data from the Athens Stock Exchange, the results of this paper claim that the four Greek national parliamentary elections during the period 2000-2009, had no statistically significant effect on the Greek banks stocks. The results show that Cumulative Average Abnormal Returns (CAARs) were slightly positive or negative for Greek banks’ stocks, but not statistically significant in 5 and 10 per cent confidence levels. Results show no manipulation effect in banks’ stocks even if single-party governments in Greece caused elections early, sudden or even opportunistic timing, having an incentive to attempt to manipulate stocks to increase their chances of re-election. Practical implications – Results show that CAARs were slightly positive or negative for Greek banks stocks, but not statistically significant in 5 and 10 per cent confidence levels, but when illicit funds or assets have been acquired from stock manipulation, as small as can be, then one fact remains constant. Proceeds from illicit activities must be disguised in some way to avoid being discovered and then being recovered. Especially, during current the financial crisis, debt crisis and the extraordinary liquidity support measures taken by the European Central Bank (ECB), International Monetary Fund (IMF) and European Commission to support Greek economy, using methods to detect and recover ill gotten assets are extremely important. Indirect methods such as net worth analysis, bank deposit analysis, expenditure method or sources and application of funds analysis, to detect ill gotten assets, and then when ill gotten income and assets from bank stock manipulation are found, a restraining order or court order will help to recovery assets by freezing and finally confiscating them by two types of forfeiture – criminal and civil forfeitures. Establishing a code of conduct informing employees of the risks and consequences of insider trading, creating a culture of honesty and high ethics and implementing Controlled Foreign Corporation legislation to cope with off-shore companies trading, can help to recover ill gotten assets. Originality/value – The paper examines if there is banks stocks manipulation around announcement of Greek national parliamentary elections during the period 2000-2009; suggesting methods to detect and recover ill gotten assets and improving the current position of the Greek economy. Findings offer important positive implications for investors, political analysts and society as a whole, as Greek banks stocks show that they are not subject to political risk and manipulation and that there are methods to detect and recover ill gotten assets. A stable bank sector is prerequisite for economy growth.
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Chan, Jennifer Lisa, Valentino Constantinou, Jennifer Fokas, Sarah Van Deusen Phillips, and George Chiampas. "An Overview of Chicago (Illinois USA) Marathon Prehospital Care Demographics, Patient Care Operations, and Injury Patterns." Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 34, no. 03 (June 2019): 308–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1049023x19004345.
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AbstractIntroduction:Large-scale mass-sporting events are increasingly requiring greater prehospital event planning and preparation to address inherent event-associated medical conditions in addition to incidents that may be unexpected. The Bank of America Chicago Marathon (Chicago, Illinois USA) is one of the largest marathons in the world, and with the improvement of technology, the use of historical patient and event data, in conjunction with environmental conditions, can provide organizers and public safety officials a way to plan based on injury patterns and patient demands for care by predicting the placement and timing of needed medical support and resources.Problem:During large-scale events, disaster planning and preparedness between event organizers, Emergency Medical Services (EMS), and local, state, and federal agencies is critical to ensure participant and public safety.Methods:This study looked at the Bank of America Chicago Marathon, a significant endurance event, and took a unique approach of reviewing digital runner data retrospectively over a five-year period to establish patterns of medical demand geographically, temporally, and by the presenting diagnoses. Most medical complaints were musculoskeletal in nature; however, there were life-threatening conditions such as hyperthermia and cardiac incidents that highlight the need for detailed planning, coordination, and communication to ensure a safe and secure event.Conclusions:The Chicago Marathon is one of the largest marathons in the world, and this study identified an equal number of participants requiring care on-course and at the finish line. Most medical complaints were musculoskeletal in nature; however, there were life-threatening conditions such as hyperthermia and cardiac incidents that highlight the need for detailed planning, multi-disciplined coordination, and communication to ensure a safe and secure event. As technology has evolved, the use, analysis, and implementation of historical digital data with various environmental conditions can provide organizers and public safety officials a map to plan injury patterns and patient demands by predicting the placement and timing of needed medical support, personnel, and resources.
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Zambelis, Eva, and Mark Thomas. "Crédit Agricole and Emporiki. Buying a Greek bank in 2006. What could go wrong?" Strategic Direction 32, no. 9 (September 12, 2016): 25–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/sd-05-2016-0070.
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Purpose The aim of this paper is to see how NOT to manage an acquisition through the case study of one of the worst M&As in recent years: Emporiki Bank’s by Crédit Agricole. Although the role of the banks is to manage risk, the acquisition of Emporiki by Crédit Agricole shows how easy it is, when ill prepared, to make one mistake after another and get trapped without a way out. It can even cause to take such desperate decisions as in this case sell an entire bank for one single euro. Design/methodology/approach General review. Findings The paper shows that being a very successful bank does not guarantee in any way good M&As, especially in an unknown market. Preparation, understanding of the whole situation and reactivity is key for a successful M&A. Without it, the consequences can be disastrous. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.
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Min, Lei, Ping Yang, Lizhi Dong, Wenjin Liu, Shuai Wang, Bing Xu, and Yong Liu. "A l1 Norm Based Image Prior Combination in Multiframe Superresolution." Mathematical Problems in Engineering 2017 (2017): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/2694638.
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We address the multiframe superresolution problem using the variational Bayesian method in this paper. In the variational Bayesian framework, the prior is crucial in transferring the ill-posed reconstruction problem to a well-posed one. We propose a prior combination method based on filter bank and l1 norm. Multiple filters are used in our prior model, and the corresponding combination coefficient vector can be estimated by the characteristics of the filtered image and noise. Furthermore, the local adaptive coefficients of every filter are more effective in removing noise and preserving image edges. Extensive experiments demonstrate the advantages of the proposed method.
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Siarka, Pawel. "Global Portfolio Credit Risk Management: The US Banks Post-Crisis Challenge." Mathematics 9, no. 5 (March 6, 2021): 562. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/math9050562.
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This paper addresses the problem of modeling credit risk for multi-product and global loan portfolios. The authors presented an improved version of the Basel Committee’s one-factor model for capital requirements calculation. They examined whether latent market factors corresponding to distinct portfolios are always highly correlated within the global portfolio and how this correlation impacts total losses distribution function. Historical losses of top-tier banks (JPMorgan Chace, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, US Bancorp) were analyzed. Furthermore, the estimation of the correlations between latent market factors was conducted, and its impact on the total loss distribution function was assessed. The research was performed based on consolidated financial statements for holding companies - FR Y-9C reports provided by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. To verify the improved model, the authors analyzed two distinct loan portfolios for each bank, i.e., credit cards and commercial and industrial loans. They showed that the correlation between latent market factors could be significantly lower than one and disregarding this conclusion may lead to overestimating total unexpected losses. Hence, capital requirements calculated according to the IRB (Internal Ratings Based Approach) formula as a sum of individual VaR999 estimates may be biased. According to this finding, the enhanced one-factor model seems to be more accurate while calculating unexpected total loss for global portfolios. The authors proved that the active credit risk management process aiming to lower market factors’ correlation results in less volatile total losses. Therefore, financial institutions could be more resistant to macroeconomic downturns.
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Sharif, Haroon. "Structural Issues and Reforms in Financial (non-bank) Market in Pakistan." Pakistan Development Review 41, no. 4II (December 1, 2002): 915–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.30541/v41i4iipp.915-928.
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A large body of research now links financial sector development, including the depth of the banking system, liquidity in capital market, and financial liberalisation to long-run growth and poverty reduction. According to a recent World Bank report,1 “As the dust settles from the great financial crises of 1997-98, the potentially disastrous consequences of weak financial markets are apparent”. The report further states that the importance of getting financial policy making right has become one of the most critical development issues in this century. In the past, there have been two extreme approaches concerning financial market regulation. One clearly supports the central role of state in the financial markets, whereas, the other sees state intervention more of a problem than as the solution. Of these two rather diverging ideologies, the International Financial Institutions (IFIs) advocate the development of market institutions, more liberalisation and lesser role of state. Pakistan has been following IFI advice in this regard. However, after the East Asian Crisis, a strong point of view has emerged that believes that in developing countries, ruling out state’s role from financial markets is unrealistic. But, the state has to play a developmental role. According to Stiglitz (1991), “governments have played a central role—whether good or ill may be debated—in the development of most of those countries which today belong among the more developed”.
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Monticelli, Jefferson Marlon, Ivan Lapuente Garrido, Marcelo Curth, Luciana Marques Vieira, and Fábio Dal-Soto. "Institutional dysmorphia: when the institutions become ill." International Journal of Emerging Markets 13, no. 3 (July 16, 2018): 478–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijoem-03-2016-0057.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the influence of SOEs on institutions. The authors argue that in some cases there are differences in institutional shape between the shape that is actually demanded by an institution’s institutional environment and the shape that the institution itself believes is demanded of its institutional framework. The authors observed a behavior specific to institutions that change their institutional shape in response to demands, irrespective of whether these demands are legitimate, and this behavior was primarily in response to demands from governments and SOEs. The authors call this situation institutional dysmorphia and contrast it with institutional isomorphism. Design/methodology/approach This study is characterized by the qualitative approach and descriptive form. It is also a documentary study employing the systematic review technique and critical appreciation in a research group. The case of the Brazilian National Development Bank (BNDES) is analyzed to examine the different relationships between Brazilian SOEs and BNDES. It used secondary data provided by reports, papers and relevant magazines. The authors compare them with the conceptual purpose originated in the Medicine field. Findings The study is illustrated by the case of the BNDES and the various different relationships between Brazilian SOEs and BNDES are examined. This is a qualitative and descriptive documentary study, employing the systematic review technique. Specific behavior is observed in institutions that change their institutional shape in response to demands, irrespective of whether these demands are legitimate, and these demands mainly come from the government and from SOEs. Research limitations/implications The authors use of secondary data from only one country that was used to present these arguments. The focus was restricted to the institutional framework comprising one institution and SOEs. Private firms were not considered in this institutional framework, but they must be included in a macro-environment. Institutional pressures are dynamic and asymmetric. The dynamism of institutional change was not evaluated, and neither was the evolution of the relationships between government, SOEs and institutions. Finally, researchers need to understand not only top-down models of institutional effects but also the institutional process that incorporates both institutional influence and firm responses. Originality/value The term institutional dysmorphia is proposed through the contrast with concepts such institutional isomorphism, with reference to the institutional logics and institutional complexity of these institutions’ and SOEs’ environment. The situation described institutional dysmorphia happening in emerging countries context and might open new avenues for research.
Books on the topic "Bank One (Chicago, Ill.)"
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Harrison, Eddie. Staying on top in turbulent times. [Chicago, IL]: Window to the World Communications, 2005.
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McCree, Bryan Mary Lynn, and Davis Allen F. 1931-, eds. One hundred years at Hull-House. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990.
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Skopec, Kenneth A. Diamond jubilee, 1911-1986, the Mid-City National Bank of Chicago. [Chicago]: Mid-City National Bank of Chicago, 1986.
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With one bold act: The story of Jane Addams. Chicago: Boswell Books, 1999.
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Smith, Susan Davenport. Apostolic Faith Church: One hundred years, one hundred stories. Virginia Beach, VA: The Donning Company Publishers, 2015.
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Ben, Hecht. A thousand and one afternoons in Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.
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Ben, Hecht. A thousand and one afternoons in Chicago. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2009.
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Money to burn. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2002.
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Remembrances of the Angels: 50th anniversary reminiscences of the fire no one can forget. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2008.
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Stuart, Anne. One More Valentine. Toronto, Ontario: Harlequin, 2009.
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Castro, Rafaela G. "U." In Chicano Folklore, 233–34. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195146394.003.0021.
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Abstract Known as La Nina de Cabora (the Daughter of Cabora) and La Santa de Cabora ( the Saint of Caborn), Teresa Urrea was a curandera or sanadora (healer), and somewhat of a psychic and mystic. Her brief life touched many lives in Mexico and the Southwest. She was born in 1873 in Sinaloa, Mexico, but lived about half of her life in the United States. As an adolescent she suffered an illness, a type of epilepsy with high fevers, that once left her in a trance or coma for several days. During this coma she heard voices that told her to minister to the ill. She believed this was her mission, and she devoted her life to healing others. Before she became ill she had already learned some healing rituals and remedies by working with an Indian curandera. She lived on a ranch in Cabora, Sonora, where she acquired a large following, especially among the Yaqui Indians, and became known as La Santa de Cabora. The government became suspicious of her influence over the Indians and President Porfirio Diaz had Teresa and her father arrested, exiling them to Nogales, Arizona. Between 1892 and 1900 they moved several times within Arizona, moving to El Paso for a brief period and then back, settling in Clifton, Arizona. In 1896, while Teresa and her father lived in Nogales, a group of Yaqui and Tomochi Indians, followers of her and calling themselves Teresitas, stormed the Mexican customhouse. The Mexican president blamed this attack on Teresa, accusing her of inciting a revolution.
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Wiggers, Raymond. "The Loop." In Chicago in Stone and Clay, 101–17. Cornell University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501765063.003.0008.
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This chapter discusses the Southwestern Quadrant of the Chicago Loop. The Chicago Board of Trade Building follows the Grand Art Deco Formula, which is a skyscraper on a mountain of Salem Limestone, garnished at the bottom by a crystalline stone, and metal at its summit. Meanwhile, the Monadnock Building is famous in the architecture industry for its powerful design and its load-bearing masonry exterior. The Marquette Building is known to be one of the crown jewels of Chicago architecture and the Loop's top-tier displays of geologically derived materials. The chapter provides an overview of the geological features of the quadrant's buildings, such as The Rookery, Continental ＆ Commercial Bank, and Illinois Merchants Bank.
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Hausman, Daniel M. "Official documents: general discussion." In Macroeconomics and the real world, 277–90. Oxford University PressOxford, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198297963.003.0022.
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Abstract Andrew Oswald: Have economists’ ideas been very expensive, for good or ill, in the European Commission? Have new theories of unemployment, for example, led to large quantities of taxpayers’ money being spent, whether for benefit or cost? Adrian Pagan: I have a quotation relating to central banks that Mayer might like to use. One of our ex-research directors once said, regarding changes in opinion within the bank, that the bank was often wrong but never in doubt.
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Leslie, Thomas. "Skyscrapers As Civic Monuments." In Chicago Skyscrapers, 1934-1986, 179–204. University of Illinois Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252044953.003.0007.
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The Central Area Plan recognized that local, state, and federal governments could play leading roles by reinvesting in the Loop themselves. Daley hiself led the effort to build a new Civic Center adjacent to City Hall, a structurally innovative tower that housed offices and courtrooms in a monumental structure fronting a giant plaza, while the federal government anchored the South Loop with new Mies van der Rohe-designed offices, courtrooms, and postal facilities that also all opened onto a new public space. These two complexes on Dearborn were complemented by the civically-minded First National Bank, which built its sloping headquarters building between the two—also with a plaza that became one of the Loop’s major cultural attractions, hosting concerts and events throughout the 1970s.
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Bauerschmidt, Jonathan. "The ECB and Economic Integration." In The New European Central Bank: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead, 136—C6.N87. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198871231.003.0006.
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Abstract This chapter explores the expansive force of monetary policy and how it collides with neighbouring policy areas which apply to all the Member States of the Union, creating tensions for which the EU Treaties are ill equipped. The European Central Bank (ECB) as the main actor of monetary policy is at the centre of these evolutions. By analysing the central bank’s involvement in areas beyond monetary policy, the chapter not only uncovers the tensions with neighbouring policies, but also assesses whether the ECB’s independence and its primary objective of price stability are safeguarded. The chapter focuses on the one hand on the measures to promote budgetary stability to enhance economic policy coordination and to establish a permanent mechanism for financial assistance. On the other hand, it analyses the new forms of supervision for the internal market in order to safeguard financial stability. This chapter finally seeks to reveal the cunning of European Integration and how under the Treaties economics and politics are intrinsically connected creating strong incentives to stand together in the face of even severe crises.
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Cranston, Ross, Emilios Avgouleas, Kristin van Zweiten, Theodor van Sante, and Christoper Hare. "9. The Duty of Confidentiality." In Principles of Banking Law. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/he/9780199276080.003.0009.
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This chapter discusses the legal duty of confidentiality (or secrecy) that banks owe their customers. The real problems in the application of the doctrine in practice are two-fold. First, confidentiality has a habit of getting in the way of commercially acceptable practices. There is the potential for breaches of confidentiality where a bank performs different functions. For instance, banks may like to distribute information throughout the corporate group so that a range of financial, insurance, and other services can be marketed to customers. Secondly, confidentiality can act as a cloak for wrongdoing, often on a massive scale. Political leaders who have exploited their people, drug barons, and criminals have used the banking system to spirit away their ill-gotten gains. Bank confidentiality has then acted as an obstacle to bringing the culprits to justice and recovering the booty. Confidentiality also provides one of the explanations of how international terrorists have transferred financing round the world without detection.
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Polglase, Tim. "Globalisation and Implications for Cross-border Regulation." In Regulation And Deregulation, 355–66. Oxford University PressOxford, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198268819.003.0021.
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Abstract It is dear that the pace of consolidation in international banking and financial services is quickening. 1997 saw the mergers of Morgan Stanley with Dean Witter, Salomon with Smith Barney and Bankers Trust with Alex Brown in the US and Union Bank of Switzerland with Swiss Bank Corporation in Europe. In the current year we have already seen the announcement of three “mega “ US mergers: BankAmerica with NationsBank (US$133 billion), First Chicago with Banc One (US$72 billion) and Citicorp with Travelers, the parent of the merged Salomon Smith Barney (US$140 billion). This last merger will create America ‘s largest and most diversified financial services company, although the (in)famous US Glass-Steagall Act will require to be amended to permit the merger of a bank with an insurance company, failing which the group ‘s insurance operations will have to be spun off within 5 years. So what are the reasons for this consolidation? The mergers of BankAmerica with NationsBank and First Chicago with Banc One, while different in scale terms from what has gone before, can be seen as merely a continuation of the merger process which has been underway in the US since interstate banking restrictions were lifted in 1994 (thereby allowing banks to establish branches across state borders). Partly as a result of the removal of these restrictions, the number of banks in the US has shrunk from approximately 14,500 ten years ago to 9,000 at the present.
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Michie, Ranald C. "Commodities, Futures, Options, and Swaps, 1970–92." In Banks, Exchanges, and Regulators, 57–79. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199553730.003.0004.
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One of the most dynamic financial markets to appear after 1970 was the trading of derivatives. Prior to 1970 the fixed nature of both interest rates and exchange rates, because of government controls and central bank intervention, limited the need to cover risks in these areas. With the breakdown of the Bretton Woods system in the early 1970s both interest rates and exchange rates experienced rising volatility, forcing banks to turn to derivatives as one way to coping. Governments of countries also began relaxing the prohibition on the trading of futures contracts that had been introduced in the past as a way of coping with destabilizing speculation. The commodity exchanges responded to these opportunities by devising contracts that allowed users to cover risks in financial markets as had already been done for such products as wheat, copper, and, later, oil. Leading these developments were the Chicago commodity exchanges such as the Chicago Mercantile Exchange but numerous contracts were also traded in the Over-the-Counter (OTC) market, directly between banks or through interdealer brokers.
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Coppens, Yves. "Introduction." In African Biogeography, Climate Change, & Human Evolution, 13–18. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195114379.003.0002.
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Abstract In 1967 the International Omo Research Expedition was founded by three “big names” of our scientific community-Camille Arambourg, honorary professor of Palaeontology at the Paris National Museum of Natural History, Louis Leakey, honorary director of the National Museums of Kenya, and Francis Clark Howell, professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. A document dividing the exposures of the lower Omo basin into three parts was drafted according to aerial photographs. The French in the south took the exposures surveyed by Camille Arambourg in the early 1930s. The Americans and the Kenyans took the north-the American on the right bank of the Omo River, the Kenyan on the left. This document was then signed in Nairobi by the three co-directors of the expedition; it was also formally decided that the leaders in the field would be Francis Clark Howell as far as the Chicago party was concerned, Richard Leakey for the Kenyan one, and myself for the French mission.
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Rosenstein, Donald L., and Justin M. Yopp. "Beyond Death and Dying." In The Group. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190649562.003.0007.
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In the late 1960s, LIFE magazine was one of the most widely read and influential periodicals in the world. Renowned for its photojournalism, the general-interest magazine covered all aspects of American life. The November 21, 1969, edition was no exception. It included a review of what would be The Beatles’ final studio album, a profile of Ohio State University head football coach Woody Hayes, and an advertisement for a commemorative book on that summer’s moon landing. It also featured an article on a little-known University of Chicago psychiatrist, Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, and her groundbreaking work with terminally ill patients. In an era when public discourse about death and dying was almost non-existent and when many physicians believed that a patient was better off not knowing his or her prognosis, Kübler-Ross was encouraging candid and open conversations with people about their impending deaths. Her innovative approach and courage to challenge the status quo drew the interest of LIFE editor Loudon Wainwright. His captivating story introducing Kübler-Ross and her new book, On Death and Dying, would forever change the national conversation about end-of-life and grief. The article described Kübler-Ross’s seminar teaching clinicians about the experiences of terminally ill patients. Physicians, nurses, chaplains, and medical students watched through a one-way mirror as she interviewed a twenty-two-year-old woman who had been diagnosed just two weeks earlier with leukemia, which at that time was almost always fatal. Large black-and-white pictures of the patient showed a vibrant and beautiful young woman with long hair and a wide smile. She looked nothing like someone close to death, which in some ways was the point. She talked about her diagnosis and understanding that leukemia would almost certainly kill her. Her willingness to openly discuss the prospect of her own death must have been astounding to those observing the interview. Kübler-Ross theorized that people facing their own mortality proceed through five stages prior to their death. In the first stage, the person is unable or unwilling to accept that he or she is going to die (Denial).